Cibber

American  

[sib-er] / ˈsɪb ər /

noun

1. Colley 1671–1757, English actor and dramatist: poet laureate 1730–57.

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Cibber British  

/ ˈsɪbə /

noun

1. Colley (ˈkɒlɪ). 1671–1757, English actor and dramatist; poet laureate (1730–57)

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Example Sentences

Alongside Handel, the film looks at his devout, depressive librettist Charles Jennens, and at actress and favorite singer Susannah Cibber, the subject of the aforementioned scandal, whose parts Handel taught her note by note.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2014

In the 18 century, many esteemed Colley Cibber more highly than Alexander Pope.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013

But it’s nonetheless a rollicking if somewhat textually thin fusion of two Restoration-era romps, by Colley Cibber and John Vanbrugh, appended with a declamatory Shakespearean wrap-up exalting love and licentiousness in their infinite varieties.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2012

Cibber finished the slowly burning aria, and a local minister jumped from his seat.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2012

Dr. Johnson, in an epigram anent Colley Cibber and George II., says— “Augustus still survives in Maro’s strain, And Spenser’s verse prolongs Eliza’s reign.”

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.